Incident Management Contracts in Birmingham

Incident Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Incident Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Management over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 32 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 12 33 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.36% 4.47% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.41% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 12
10th Percentile £425 £318 £396
25th Percentile £525 £325 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £438 £588
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -25.53% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £547 £650
90th Percentile £700 £600 -
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £438 £575
% change year-on-year +34.29% -23.91% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £70.97 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £71.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +288.81% -
75th Percentile - £72.90 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £43.92 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +137.38% -19.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Incident Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 443 610 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.03% 82.66% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 403 514
10th Percentile £163 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £636
90th Percentile £689 £698 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 43 29
10th Percentile - £13.19 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £26.00 £16.29
Median % change year-on-year -43.46% +59.66% -5.54%
75th Percentile £22.08 £47.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £62.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.71% +18.42% +12.93%

Incident Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Incident Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Management in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Incident Management in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Incident Management in Birmingham

Incident Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Responder
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
1 5 (41.67%) Middleware
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (16.67%) Web Application Development
6 1 (8.33%) Coaching
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow